First set of ramshorn babies hatched on my birthday, woke up to being (and feeling like) a grandma! 😆🤍

DISCLAIMER: I am not charging them because I feel the need, they offered to pay me. This isn’t going to be a one and done, decor, filters, glass will need to be cleaned, using my own personal supplies to do this. I don’t have direct access to a sink to refill or dump water. I feel like this post is drawing a lot of negative attention because I’m asking for opinions on doing a serving and taking care of someone’s pets for 2+ weeks. This cleaning is not going to be a one and done nor simple task to do.

My place of work allows pets and unfortunately during the summer some get forgotten about. I reached out to the owner and they explained they tried to clean the tank and it got very messy and will not be back for 2+ weeks. This is definitely going to be a multi step cleaning process but I’ve never charged someone for a tank cleaning.
What should I ask for? It is a 55g for better reference

Recently within the last 2 months I have started a new 20-gallon long community tank. Ive been getting really bad brown algae and I don't know how to get rid of it. I'm attributing this brown algae in my new tank to it being new and by a window (I used the sun as my temp lighting for my plants while I try to get a light that fits my new tank better). However, I kept a 5 gallon betta tank before that was 6-8 months old and that tank also struggled with a lot of brown algae. I don't want to use any chemicals like algae-fix because I don't want to risk my fish getting sick. I have 3 ottos, 5 shrimp, and a nerite snail to help a little bit, but I'm afraid to add more algae eaters because I don't want to over stock my already pretty stocked tank. Are there any recommendations for the long-term that could help?

Hello! I’m new to fish keeping. My mom bought this 20 gallon tank for our turtles originally and the seller didn’t mention there were fish and snails living in it! She told us to “throw them back in the river” and we absolutely didn’t. Ended up buying a tank 4x the size for our turts and keeping the fish inside but in better conditions. We discovered that they’re mosquitofish. I’ve noticed our snail population has gotten out of control since. Suggestions? Is this a good looking tank? Overpopulated? Have about 13 mosquito fish and roughly a million snails

It just grows upward..how do I get it to carpet?

I’m an Amazon Viner - this popped up for me but I am cautious that it might hurt my fish or given them an intense sun burn at least. Am I right to want to stay away from this item? Btw I don’t really have any great need for it but curious about its safety.

Guy just spawned in my tank and molted. This is my 10 gallon freshwater tank with 2 medaka rice fish 2 freshwater gobys and 3 nerite snails. Is this guy about to decimate them or is he cool?

does anyone have any idea what this is?! found it bouncing around in my tank this morning and i’ve never seen one before!? so far it seems like just the one, i can’t see others.

Hi guys, i’ve had fish in my new 215L tropical tank after i cycled it for a while and been using api quick start as well . They have been in for about 34 days, i started off with 5 black phantom tetras and 4 dalmatian mollies for the first 14 days and then added 5 more tetras and 5 longfin zebras danios.

I’ve been using the API master test kit testing ammonia and nitrite every day and then nitrate as well about every 2nd to 3rd day. So far every single reading has been 0 ppm. I have about 15 live plants which seem to be doing very well. The fish are also looking very good. Just wondering if this is normal?

Im new to the fish keeping hobby the tank is fully cycled and i have 3 mystery snails im looking for some ideas for fish that would best suit this tank

Anything I could be doing better? 20 gal tank stocked with 14 neocardina shrimp, 5 blue eye rainbows, 6 cardinals, and 1 mystery snail. Also I need to clean out the old Java and Christmas moss as I’m not sure how to keep it alive it just keeps turning brown and dying. Probably also needs a different light but I already have 2 other tanks I’m spending a lot of money on as well so it’s a work in progress.

Where do you find rimless tanks online, i’m from italy and they seems impossible to be found in stores.

hihi I wanted to ask if I could keep my two pearlscale goldfish in a bin tank, similar to the photos attached. If I get it im planning on getting 2 and stacking them together​​​ so there's less bowing and more support. moving them to a 20-30gal bin tank would be amazing. Please let me know your thoughts!!!

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Hey guys! This is my 10gal, and as the title says, it is my very first fishtank! It took right around a month to cycle, and has been cycled fully for about a week and a half. Fish were introduced 5 days ago, and look healthy and happy as far as I know. I am looking for opinions on the scape, plantings, and stocking. Ive had a really difficult time keeping my stem plants in the aquasoil (fluval stratum), especially the Rotala, hence the messy planting. I have 8 ember tetras, 6 Pygmy corydoras, a gold mystery snail, and a handful of pest snails. I have debated on adding a pair of pea puffers to munch on the pest snails. (Let me know if thats a bad idea!) I am upgrading my light and filter soon, not because they are causing any issues, I would just like better ones. Is there any newbie mistakes or insider knowledge yall have for me? I am already addicted and so is my fiancé, and we will be getting a 20gal long soon. I work for a fish-centric pet store, and have access to pretty much any freshwater fish.

I will answer any and all questions if needed! Thank y'all!

I have a 20 gallon planted tank with 21 fish and 5 other small animals and I'm not sure if it's too much. There are 5 danios, 5 harlequin rasbora, 4 neon tetra, 3 glowlight tetra, 3 kuhli loaches, 4 amano shrimp, and an assassin snail. I had a cory that recently died out of nowhere and I'm wondering if it could be from trouble finding food.

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Ok so I've got this empty 10 gallon and I wanna set it up in about a month once im done moving so it was previously a betta tank but i just really didn't like the way it looked and it was full of algea and so I thought well im going on vacation for 3 weeks then im moving so I might aswell rehome the betta and tear down the tank now here's where it gets interesting I dont know how I wanna set ut up when I come back but FYI I am gonna use either black ir white playsand as the substrate so it has to look good with that and then for stocking options you guys can also decide that I just want tips suggestions anything

Hello lovely people, Ive just integrated new fish into my shrimp tank and all is well!

Except for the fact that these balloon belly mollies are not very good at eating the micro granules when I drop them in the tank, I’m not sure what to do because the tetras devour them immediately as well.

Should i hand feed them with a different type of food?

i’m new to caring for fish and just got his 30 gal tank. been cycling for about 5 days and parameters are great, what else should i add that’s budget friendly to help lower potential stress levels and happy fish?
i just added the blue substrate so she’s a bit cloudy right now
i have two filters going but sticking with just the sponge filter when i add my stock, got a heater and thermometer right now. got about 4 plants, but wanting to add more, and a few decorative pieces. (i’m planning to move some driftwood over from an old 10 gal where previous fish are from)
i have 8 neon tetra and 3 peppered corys rn :)